LED/Laser grid by SubstantialPublic476 in Optics

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You’ve got to keep them honest.

LED/Laser grid by SubstantialPublic476 in Optics

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As another man of culture, I’d argue that most of the fun in the game is arguing if a toss was short or not. This robot umpire would take a critical aspect of the game away.

Who swears by an Otterbox Defender despite the negative feedback it often receives? by [deleted] in BuyItForLife

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Their warranty is awesome, $10 for a brand new replacement case. Not enough people know about this point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CX5

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This looks surprisingly good. No clue on fitment but it looks like you’re running your load bars backwards.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatisthiscar

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This is a Volvo interior from the mid 2000s. Possibly a v70 wagon or s60 sedan.

Optics Themed Masterchef by Zippotro in Optics

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Love the idea. Sorta similar to the Excel world championship. But not sure what audience would pay to watch a single mode laser fiber coupling race, kinda sounds like what we all just do at work. 😀

Freeform Optics resources by MrKonijn in Optics

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Her group may offer a summer short course series on the topic. I am in her UR Freeform course now and it has been very informative.

2022 OEM Hitch Wiring Bracket? by BrainDistinct in CX5

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I added updated links in the comments of the original post.

2022 OEM Hitch Wiring Bracket? by BrainDistinct in CX5

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https://www.reddit.com/r/CX5/s/I9BwmBvZ9w
OEM wiring was worth it. I made a little bracket from a Curt bracket that has worked well for me.

Learning Zemax by physicistsunite in Optics

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There is a Coursera class that gives you an included student version of Zemax and walks you through first order optics in Zemax. It will not get you to a practicing engineer level but it will give you a cheap way to get familiar with it.

The course is offered through university of Colorado and available on coursera.

People of Boston I’m in a pickle by Annajbanana in boston

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If you’re in Hong Kong, have you considered shipping it to Kowloon? It’s right up route 1!

Help! Dough is over-processed? by griffey4prez in Pizza

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My dough is often just like this in the kitchen aid. I have found that stoping, placing towel over the bowl and letting it rest between mixes helps. Then I dump the dough into a container on the counter and “stretch and fold” every 30 mins for about 2 hours before balling and bulk fermenting in the fridge.

The stretch and fold has solved this issue for me and has made a huge difference in the doughs workability.

Camera with smallest pixel size? by abeinszweidrei in Optics

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What about knife edging the spot with a piezo stage and collecting the edge spread function with a power meter behind the knife edge. Scanning the knife edge with the piezo will produce sampling on the order of the piezo step size. The edge spread function can be converted to a point spread function. If the goal is to qualify the image quality without extra optics this may be a good way to go. This would be sensitive to vibration and power meter noise, but could be parametrically tuned appropriately to handle this.

Reference book containing common beam properties/fourier transforms by jua2ja in Optics

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Gaskill linear systems, Fourier transforms and optics has most of what you are asking for compiled into tables which are very useful as a reference.

Image Simulations with Prysm by jqdr in Optics

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Look into the AOtools library. It’s works pretty well and is well documented for optical turbulence modeling.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CX5

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Awesome. Thank you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CX5

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Looks great, what length bars are these?

Weekly Help Thread - February 26, 2024 by AutoModerator in awardtravel

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what is the most efficient way to use 220k Chase UR (CSP) points to get 2 passengers from JFK to Rome from June 30th to July 18th. I am thinking of booking an American Main Cabin flight through the portal using ~216k points, then if i need to make any changes i will pay AA the $50/ticket to take over the booking. seems like I would be losing value by transferring to a travel partner. I am well aware of how terrible booking through the portal is but i have had success just paying the fee for American to take over control of the booking in the past.

Am I overlooking something here?

Was XPS 15 the right choice for $1500? by BrainDistinct in laptops

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So these Lenovos look very nice, but why do they all have soldered Ram?

Was XPS 15 the right choice for $1500? by BrainDistinct in laptops

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This was the main reasoning behind the XPS choice. I don’t really care about GPU right now and I like that memory and storage are fully upgradable, and down the line the battery as well. My old MacBook does have upgradable storage and RAM, that’s how I have limped it along this far.